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Douglas Williams originally hails from Suffolk, Virginia. He is a third-generation organizer, having a grandmother who worked to integrate the schools in his hometown and a father who continues to be active in labor organizing. He is currently a doctoral student in political science at Wayne State University. His research centers around public policy as it relates to disadvantaged communities and the labor movement, and his dissertation will be a comparative examination of the efficacy of the labor movement at increasing democratic participation and securing supportive public policy. He has written on social movements and labor rights for The Century Foundation, Hack the Union, Jacobin Magazine, and The New Inquiry. In addition to his writing and research, Douglas also serves as the co-chair of the American Political Science Association’s Labor Project. He tweets at @TheDW85.

Neoliberalism is often portrayed as a political monolith in which resistance is either absent or futile. It is, as this narrative goes, the overarching ideology of “the end of history,” the bleak, unceasing present that persists despite the structural challenges posed by the Great Recession. Whether intentionally or not, this totalizing depiction extends to the […]

The prevailing historical perspective among historians and other commentators is that workers in the US South cannot be organized into labor unions. The panelists examine union organizing in the South in historic perspective, including the pre-Wagner Act successes of organizing drives associated with left political parties; the debate over whether the NIRA and NLRA sparked […]